Pallavi Sharda wallpapers & Biography
Pallavi Sharda born 5 March 1988 is an Australian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. She won the Miss India Australia beauty pageant in 2010. As an actress, she is best known for her role in the Academy Award nominated film Lion (2016). She has also starred in the Hindi language films Besharam (2013), Hawaizaada (2015) and Begum Jaan (2017). She starred in the Australian film Save Your Legs! (2012) and the Australian teleseries Les Norton (2019). Since 2021, Sharda has starred in Tom & Jerry, The Twelve and the rom-com Wedding Season
Early life
Sharda was born in Perth, Western Australia to an Indian family. Her father was Hema Sharda and mother was Nalin Kant Sharda. Both her parents are IIT alumni from Bombay and Delhi and have PhDs in science and engineering. They moved to Australia in the 1980s before she was born. Sharda came to Melbourne as a child where she grew up in the outer north-western suburbs. She went to school at Lowther Hall in Essendon where she won an academic scholarship and at the age of 16 she began an LLB and BA (Media and Communications) and Diploma in Modern Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne, graduating with honours at the age of 21.
Advocacy
Sharda is on the advisory board of e-kutir, a social entrepreneurship company focused on improving the lives of Indians using the 'base of the pyramid' model. Her focus areas are hygiene and mother and child. Sharda is a regular keynote speaker in Australia on Asia Literacy, inter-cultural relations between India and Australia, and women empowerment in India. In 2015 she was appointed "Queen of Moomba", Melbourne's largest community festival, along with retired Australian cricketer Shane Warne. Pallavi was named in the list of forty most influential Asian Australians at the inaugural Asian-Australian Leadership Summit. In 2023, she was appointed to the Screen Australia board. She partnered with World Vision Australia along with other notable Australian women activists to raise their voices to empower 1,000 girls.
In 2024, Pallavi became an ambassador for the Witchery White Shirt Campaign to help raise awareness for ovarian cancer researchovarian cancer research
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